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shadowspar: Picture of Kurama lashing out with a rose whip (kurama - rose whip)
Sunday, September 4th, 2011 23:39

Douglas Crockford whines that people have baggage.

Isn't it kind of hypocritical, or at least wilfully ignorant, to build a social media website -- something of which people are a central component, and getting them in the door key to its success -- and then complain that these damned people don't behave deterministically and don't fit neatly into the system like nice little cubes?

Well, surprise! People are mushy bags of mostly edge cases, and if you're building social software, you're going to bloody well have to deal with it.

Damn users, getting to have opinions about software, instead of just using it or not!


⁰: Self-loading cargo: airline industry slang for passengers.